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The Day Ahead: Vicinity Sees Boom In Wireless Services
News Vicinity will add to its growing stable of wireless partners this week when it announces a deal with Verizon Wireless. Vicinity, which provides Internet marketing services and leads to its bricks-and-mortar customers, has been pushing hard to...
[July 17, 2000, 13:47]
Ray's A Laugh
Blog That would have a number of effects: a lot of the radio power would hang around the vicinity of the operators instead of pootling away as planned, and that might not count as a good hair day. It might not be accurate enough to hit the transmitter...
[January 26, 2007, 14:13]
Rescue Robots Help Showcase Aussie Innovation
News With DICE, the voices in one's virtual vicinity are heard in harmony with their visual representation (location, distance and spatial placement with respect to the listener). The software will enable players to hear a spatially accurate rendering...
[October 7, 2004, 10:35]
Steorn's Free Energy Seems Curiously Expensive
Talkback Laws of physics don't just die in the vicinity of a couple of magnetic fields. You're probably right, it's just a publicity stunt. But I'd really like it to be true (I guess they are counting on this type of expectations to get attention.
[August 22, 2006, 14:22]
German Utility Uses RAD Access Devices For Telecontrol And Voice And Data Communications Network
White Papers Local utility Stadtwerke Rostock AG (SWR) supplies electricity, natural gas, heating and urban lighting to urban and regional markets in the vicinity of Rostock, Germany. SWR needed a high bandwidth data transmission network to operate its new...
[October 27, 2004, 3:00]
A New Threat From The Datacentre: You're Making Your Staff Deaf!
Blog Comment Active noise cancellation works by emitting a waveform from a speaker that should cancel out the sounds coming into the vicinity of the ears. The problem is that it has to be as loud as the sound would be at the ear itself, just inverted in phase.
[August 18, 2008, 9:18]
Quantum Codes, Deep Space And Utter Geek Delight
Blog Comment Oh.a brane is like a bubble (in theory of course), or a film that surrounds our universe, and other universes in the vicinity.this theory is not something I have bought into. To me, the higher dimensions are possibly frequencys out side the realm...
[August 12, 2008, 15:17]
BT Watcher
Downloads You can assign your mobile with BT Watcher, and you can forget about locking your PC: BT Watcher will do it every time you will leave the vicinity of the computer. BT Watcher can also start user-defined task when connection will be lost, or even...
[August 19, 2007, 1:46]
BT Resilience?
Talkback I seem to remember a fire in a cable duct in Machester taking out large numbers of connections in March 2004, affecting people far outside the immediate vicinity of Manchester, and throughout the UK. Have BT improved their resilience since then or...
[February 4, 2008, 12:12]
A Reactive Service Composition Architecture For Pervasive Computing Environments
White Papers With the advancement in the wireless technology and pervasive computing, this paper envisions that in the near future, one will have information or services embedded in various wireless devices in the vicinity.
[March 21, 2006, 23:00]
RFID Integration
White Papers While some very simplistic systems, such as basic access control and vicinity card systems, require drastically less RFID systems knowledge all implementations are subject to the same issues and a thorough knowledge of these will help all who work...
[June 17, 2004, 0:01]
Police Lack Resources For Paedophile Hunts
Talkback Weymouth, about 30 miles along the coast, is another 'haunt".three prisons in the vicinity mean that the Home Office have sited a large probation unit. I think Mr. Carnies ideas are FANTASTIC! Here in Dorset we have over 600 convicted paedophilesin...
[March 20, 2006, 12:26]
A Study Of Factors Affecting The Design Of EPC Antennas & Readers For Supermarket Shelves
White Papers The objective of this paper is to provide an understanding of the nature of the electromagnetic fields that can be created at both high frequencies (HF) and ultra high frequencies (UHF) in the vicinity of supermarket shelves.
[June 19, 2004, 20:00]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback What you can not do in your vicinity, we did on our land. Did you know that We, Indians work while you sleep. English is not the only language we speak but we equally command over French, Spanish, madarin and many more.
[March 28, 2006, 15:52]
Bluetooth Scatternet Formation For Single-Hop Ad Hoc Networks Based On Virtual Positions
White Papers In a single-hop ad hoc network, all wireless devices are in the radio vicinity of each other, e.g.electronic devices in a laboratory, or laptops in a conference room. This paper addresses the problem of scatternet formation for single-hop Bluetooth...
[October 18, 2005, 3:00]
Throughput Dependence On Packet Length In Bluetooth Networks
White Papers Packets transmitted in a radio network can be sensitive to interference from other radio transmissions in the vicinity. This paper presents an investigation of the throughput dependence on packet lengths in a Bluetooth network interfered by other...
[August 9, 2005, 6:00]
GpsOne Case Study: KDDI
White Papers Consumers want position information when they're lost, maps and point-to-point directions for hotels, restaurants and other destinations, and alerts when friends are in the vicinity. KDDI is Japan's second largest communications carrier, providing...
[August 12, 2008, 1:17]
Me-Services: A Framework For Secure & Personalized Discovery, Composition And Management Of Services In Pervasive Environments
White Papers This paper presents the use of semantically rich descriptions for devices to discover, and cooperate with, others in their vicinity. Increasing computational capabilities and decreasing costs of commonly used devices, and the concomitant...
[October 18, 2005, 3:00]
CDMA-Based MAC Protocol For Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers Channel-gain information obtained from overheard RTS and CTS packets over an out-of-band control channel is used to dynamically bound the transmission power of mobile terminals in the vicinity of a receiver.
[August 1, 2004, 3:00]
Configurational Entropy Of Binary Hard-Disk Glasses: Nonexistence Of An Ideal Glass Transition
White Papers Numerous e orts have been made to identify the cause of the dramatic slowdown of the dynamics (specifically, the decrease of the discussion coefficient and the increase in relaxation times) in the vicinity of the kinetic glass transition.
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
